RULES
- Mods, including myself, are not allowed to ban ANYONE for a period of over 2 years, except as punishment for breaking this rule. If a mod of c/web3_xr bans someone for more than the listed times below, or bans someone in excess of 730 days (or 731 days if one of those days is the 29th of February on a leap year), the offending mod will be permanently removed from their position and will receive a ban of a length double to that of the ban which they gave to another. If more than one mod was involved in violating this rule, or more than one person was wrongfully banned, the offending mod(s) will be given double the combined ban lengths they maliciously gave.
- Mods are not exempt from the rules; if banned for any length of time, immediate removal from your assigned position will accompany it.
- Deleting content (aside from bot-generated spam) is against community rules. Doing so will result in you being reported to the instance mods and your content will be restored once you have been permanently banned to protect content from removal. The only exception to this (again, aside from bot-generated spam) is the portions of content which are or contain illegal content involving underage minors (see rule 1).
- Legally, we cannot archive or post links to sexual content containing fictional minors, due to the hosting of both sh.itjust.works and lemmy.zip being located in Canada and the United States of America respectively. Please read this for more information. To make this fair when such content IS allowed in nations like Japan and Colombia, while pornographic images of real children are not legal in those same countries, and due to my disgust with the content of fictional explicit content involving minors but also my anger with non-sexual NSFW content involving fictional minors being legal, and my disapproval of the cruel treatment of people seeking psychological treatment - in both my home country and elsewhere - for their condition/kink, I (u/Gadg8eer) will be banning ALL discussion of such content, including discussion of this very rule. This is punishable by up to a two year ban.
- HOWEVER, aside from the illegal links and the images themselves, NO such discussion is allowed to ever be deleted. Breaking this rule, even by mods, and regardless of motive or opinion, will result in a two year ban that can ONLY be rescinded by me (u/Gadg8eer) due to the sheer controversy and bigotry (ageism, racism, popularism and sexism) involved and (for what its worth) my inability to trust anyone else to be neutral on such a subject, which is why all discussion will remain hosted (but hidden by NSFW spoiler tags) as evidence of both moderative and judicial importance. Discussing this rule in any way is also forbidden, I have already banned someone for 2 years for discussing this topic in regards to defederation, so do not test me on this.
- Defederation is a blight on the fediverse in my mind, and while I am not authorative on the matter, or willing to abuse my position, discussion of defederation can only be justified by hostile "combat" by instance A to instance B that is not addressed by the admins of instance A, and must be refederated if instance A ever does address it. Any other attempt to "justify" defederation will be reviewed and, if found to be antithetical to the fair and permanent existence of morally-acceptable ("Don't be a jerk or be evil; nobody likes to be unfairly hurt") online content, will result in a 1 month ban on the first and 6 months on the second strike, and a 2 year ban on the third strike.
- Alt accounts are only allowed insofar as not being created for spam or harassment. Due to a lack of moderation tools as of this writing, stay tuned for updates to this rule.
Appeal Process
Please private message a member of the staff to resolve any issues where you believe you've been wrongfully banned. If the mods themselves are considered corrupt, you may bring up one report per month with u/Gadg8eer by private message to express these issues.
